On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 11:23:20 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Programmers use source code as text for the same reason that wheels are > still round. Wheels have been round for thousands of years! Why can't we > try something modern, like triangular wheels? Or something fractal in > three-dimensions... maybe cauliflower shaped?
So also did people believe for a good 2000 years that acceleration due to gravity is proportional to mass until Galileo climbed up the tower of Pisa and dropped 2 different weight objects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa_experiment Analogies can work both ways And before you ask something like | What does this have to do with creating a language with configurable syntax? | Just because C/Unix was a good idea doesn't mean every idea related to | programming language design is also a good idea. let me spell it out: Prestige of Aristotle stymies progress of physics of 2 millennia likewise Prestige of Unix development environment keeps us stuck with text files when the world has moved on -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list